The Senate Judiciary Committee (Civil Justice) has announced hearing schedules for HB274 as follows:

Tues., Dec. 3, 10:00 a.m. - Senate Hearing Room 110 - Invited proponent testimony only

Tues., Dec. 3, 2:00 p.m. or post-session (time permitting) - Senate Hearing Room 110

Wed., Dec. 4, 11:00 a.m. (may reconvene after Senate session if necessary) - North Hearing Room - Proponent & Opponent testimony

Thurs., Dec. 5, 9:00 a.m. - South Hearing Room - Consideration of amendments, possible vote out of committee.

We highly encourage EVERYONE who can make the trip to Columbus do so to attend one or more of these hearings.

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Further details will be posted to our website as they are obtained.

A Hamilton County judge Tuesday refused to order the city of Cincinnati to turn over documents that gun manufacturers say might be evidence supporting the city's allegations that gun makers are responsible for the unauthorized ways criminals obtain firearms.

Attorneys for the gun companies say that, despite their pleas, the city has failed to produce any statistics or reports to support its contentions.

In a motion filed last month, they asked Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman to order the city to comply with their requests.

"I'm not going to micromanage this case," the judge said Tuesday. "I'm not going to box (the city) in right now. I think we've got some perimeters set down. If they can't prove it, then that will be part of (a request for dismissal)."

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The state Senate race between Republican incumbent Jeffry Armbruster and Democratic challenger Sue Morano is headed for a recount, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.

The certified vote showed Armbruster beat Morano by a margin of 47,856 to 47,482 -- a difference of 374 votes, Dana Walch, Blackwell's director of elections, wrote to boards of election in Lorain, Huron and Seneca counties.

The difference is four-tenths of 1 percent of the total vote, meaning a recount is mandatory under Ohio law.

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Gov. Bob Taft is leaning toward making legislation requiring safe storage of firearms a new condition for winning his approval of a bill that would allow Ohioans to carry concealed weapons, a well-placed Statehouse source said Monday.

The safe-storage provision would be in addition to Taft’s requirement that any concealed-weapons bill have the support of major law enforcement groups, said the source, who declined to be identified.

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